Since its founding in 1701, Yale has been dedicated to expanding and sharing knowledge, inspiring innovation, and
preserving cultural and scientiďŹ c information for future generations.
Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reach is both local and international. It partners with its hometown of New Haven, Connecticut to strengthen
the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s community and economy. And it engages with people and institutions across the globe in the quest to promote cultural understanding, improve the human condition, delve more deeply into the secrets of the universe, and
train the next generation of world leaders.

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Peter Salovey is the 23rd president of Yale University, and the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology. His presidential
term began in July 2013.
Prior to becoming president, Salovey served as the provost of Yale University from 2008 to 2013. As provost, Salovey
facilitated strategic planning and initiatives such as: enhancing career development and mentoring opportunities for
all Yale faculty members; promoting faculty diversity; creating the Oﬃce of Academic Integrity; establishing the University-wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct; developing the West Campus; and overseeing the University’s budget
during the global ﬁnancial crisis.
Other leadership roles at Yale have included: chair of the Department of Psychology from 2000 to 2003; dean of the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2003 and
2004; and dean of Yale College from 2004 to 2008.
In addition to teaching and mentoring scores
of graduate students, Salovey has won both
the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College and the Lex Hixon ’63 Prize for Teaching
Excellence in the Social Sciences. He has received honorary degrees from the University
of Pretoria (2009), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2014), National Tsing Hua University (2014), and Harvard University (2015).

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Yale’s residential college system, now more than 70 years old, is perhaps the most distinctive feature of the College. The residential
colleges allow students to experience the cohesiveness and intimacy of a small school while still enjoying the cultural and scholarly resources of a large university; the residential colleges do much to foster spirit, allegiance, and a sense of community at Yale.
Before freshman year, all incoming undergraduates are assigned to one of Yale’s twelve residential colleges. Students remain
aﬃliated with their residential college for all 4 years (and beyond). Yale makes every eﬀort to represent the diversity of the
entire undergraduate community within every residential college. In this sense each college is a microcosm of the larger student population. The residential college system oﬀers students a familiar, comfortable living environment, personal interaction with faculty members and administrators, and exciting opportunities for academic and extracurricular exploration.

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The mission of Yale varsity athletics is to attract outstanding student athletes, who aspire to undertake the challenge of a high-level education while proudly representing Yale University in the pursuit of championships.
Through exceptional facilities and coaches, Yale Athletics ensures that our students learn the important values of
leadership, integrity, discipline and teamwork. The aspiration is that in the course of preparation and competition, students enter a co-curricular laboratory for learning that will ďŹ t them to lead in all of their future endeavors.

Since his arrival in 1994, Director of Athletics Tom Beckett has built top-notch facilities, bridged the relationship between Yale and New Haven, helped ﬁll stadium seats and has brought some of the best coaches and student-athletes to
campus.
As Yale’s 17th chief of athletics, Beckett has worked tirelessly to raise money for improvement projects, and his success has made the athletics facilities among the best in the country. The renovation of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium
(Lanman Center, Israel Fitness Center, Brooks-Dwyer Weight Room, Brady Squash Center) was the ﬁrst big job under
the YUAD leader. The restoration of Yale Bowl (Class of 1954 Field, Kenney Center, Jensen Plaza) and Reese Stadium
and the building of the McNay Family Sailing Center, Gilder Boathouse, Johnson Field and the Dewitt Family Softball
Complex were other large projects during Beckett’s tenure. Renovations on the world famous Course at Yale, Ingalls
Rink and the Cullman-Heyman Tennis Center has brought those facilities to unprecedented levels. The installation of
a banked track inside Coxe Cage named after Frank Shorter ’69 was yet another successful endeavor.
A 1968 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, Beckett earned three varsity
letters in baseball and basketball, serving as the captain of the Panthers’ 1968
baseball team. He earned a master’s degree in education from his alma mater in
1972 and is a 1975 graduate of Harvard’s Summer Institute of Life Science. Beckett played professional baseball in the San Francisco Giants’ organization for
ﬁve seasons before embarking on a career in college athletics. He coached at the
University of Pittsburgh and Butler Community College (PA), and was an athletic administrator at San Jose State University before moving to Stanford, where
he served from 1983 to 1994 as associate director of athletics. During his tenure
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VARSITY SPORTS
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Founded in 1954, the Ivy League is the most diverse intercollegiate conference in the country with more than 9,000
student-athletes competing each year. Sponsoring conference championships in 33 men’s and women’s sports and
averaging more than 35 varsity teams at each school, the Ivy League provides more intercollegiate athletic opportunities per school than any other conference in the country. All eight Ivy schools are among the top 20 of NCAA Division I schools in number of sports oﬀered for both men and women.
The Ivy League annually ﬁnishes among the top conferences in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of
Athletics competitive rankings and enjoys regular competitive success at the highest championship levels of collegiate athletics, including team and individual national championships in women’s cross country, men’s and women’s fencing, ﬁeld hockey, men’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s rowing, men’s and
women’s squash, men’s and women’s swimming & diving, men’s and women’s indoor and outdoor track & ﬁeld and
wrestling.
Ivy League student-athletes annually compile the country’s best marks in the NCAA’s Academic Performance Ratings and Graduation Success Rates under the Ivy League model of athletics as a key part of their overall undergraduate experience. Ivy student-athletes grow from their athletics experiences to become national and community leaders
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When Princeton used to have a real tiger cub and Harvard always brought
along, the “Orange Man” as a stand-in for Puritan John Harvard, Yale undergraduates thought they were due for a mascot and ﬁnally one came to
Yale in 1889 in the custody of Andrew B. Graves, ‘92S (crew and football
tackle) who, as an undergraduate, had seen the dog sitting in front of a
shop and purchased him from a New Haven blacksmith for $5.00. The
students dubbed him the “Yale mascot”. He was always led across the
ﬁeld just before football and baseball games would begin. “In personal
appearance, he seemed like a cross between an alligator and a horned
frog, and he was called handsome by the metaphysicians under the law
of compensation,” eulogized the Hartford Courant. “The title came to
him, he never sought it. He was always taken to games on a leash, and
the Harvard football team for years owed its continued existence to the
fact that the rope held.” The Philadelphia Press recalled that “a favorite
trick was to tell him to ‘Speak to Harvard.’ He would bark ferociously
and work himself into physical contortions of rage never before dreamed
of by a dog. Dan was peculiar to himself in one thing - he would never
associate with anyone but students. Dan implanted himself more ﬁrmly
in the hearts of Yale students than any mascot had ever done before.”
The tradition was established by a young gentleman from Victorian
England, who attended Yale in the 1890’s. The line now numbers 17, and
the original successors have been the intimates of deans, directors, and
coaches. One was tended by a head cheerleader who went on to become
the Secretary of State. Another was featured on the cover of a national
magazine. Yale was the ﬁrst university in the United States to adopt a
mascot, and to this date, none is better known than Handsome Dan.

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As of July 1, 2016, Yale Athletics and all 35 varsity teams will be outďŹ tted exclusively by
Under Armour. Yale signed a ten year agreement with the Baltimore-based apparel and footwear company that makes Yale the ďŹ rst Ivy League institution sponsored by Under Armour.

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Yale University has an extremely proud and rich tradition at the modern Olympic Games. Including the
2016 Summer Olympics, there have been over 200 people associated with Yale Athletics be a part of the
modern Olympic Games. The exact number stands at 202 and spans all disciplines, associations and numerous represented countries. In all, 83 Yale Bulldogs have won 115 Olympic Medals. Most recently,
alumna Kate Grace ‘11 (United States of America - track and ﬁeld) and current Bulldog Katherine Miller
‘17 (Brazil - fencing) were named to their respective country’s Olympic Games rosters.

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the afternoon at Coxe Cage. In the spring,
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to the track in the afternoon at Dewitt
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HOME MEETS
Yale Track and Field and Cross Country
hosts numerous track and cross country
meets throughout the competition season. These include college team scored
meets, invitationals and the Heptagonal
Championships. Yale also hosts one
of the premiere indoor high school
invitationals in the country at Coxe Cage.

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The history of Yale Track and Field in the Olympic Games runs deep, with the ďŹ rst Bulldog ever to compete in the Olympics
being in athletics. The year was 1900 and since then, athletes associated with Yale Track and Field have represented their respective countries in numerous Summer Olympic Games. The most recent is Kate Grace â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;11. By winning the United State of
America Olympic Trials in the 800m, Grace earned her spot on the 2016 Olympic Team that competed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A multi-time All-American while at Yale, Grace still holds school records in several events and won numerous Heptagonal
Championships. Post-collegiately, Grace embarked on a professional running career and is currently sponsored by Oiselle.

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Junior James Randon posted a 4:00.5 in
the outdoor mile in the summer of 2015
and entered the 2016 indoor season with a
desire to break the formidible 4:00 barrier.
On Sunday March 6, 2016, Randon lined
up for the IC4A Mile Championship at the
Boston University Track and Tennis Center. Rabbited by teammate Matt Chisholm
for the ďŹ rst 600m, Randon ran out front on
his own for the last 1000m. Running a perfect race, Randon cross the line in 3:58.85,
the ďŹ rst time a Yale Bulldog had ever broken the 4:00 barrier. In addition, he set the
school record, won the IC4A Championship and set the IC4A record in the mile.

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Junior James Randon qualiﬁed to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with an automatic qualifying spot in the NCAA East Preliminary 1500m and qualiﬁed through to the 1500m
ﬁnal in Eugene, Oregon. In a ﬁnal that featured
multiple former national champions and AllAmericans, Randon capped his junior campaign
with an 8th place ﬁnish and All-American Honors.

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Junior Frances Schmiede earned a
berth in the 2016 Indoor Track Championships in the mile from her perforamce at the Valentine Invitational.
At the BU Track and Tennis Center,
Schmiede broke the Yale school record - previously held by standout
Kate Grace - running a 4:37.77. The
National Championship ﬁeld consisted of 16 of the ﬁnest milers in the
country and Schmiede ﬁnished as a
second team All-American at her ﬁrst
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Junior Marc-Andre Alexandre, a native of Montreal, qualiﬁed for the senior men’s 400m Canadian Championships with his time of 46.99 at the
Point Loma Nazarene University Invitational. A multi-time Ivy League
Champion, Alexandre also qualiﬁed
for the NCAA East Preliminary Round
in 2016. At the Canadian Championships in Edmonton, Alexandre secured
an automatic qualifying spot to the ﬁnal with his second place ﬁnish in his
heat in the preliminaries. In the ﬁnals,
Alexandre ﬁnished 6th to close out
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Senior Kevin Dooney capped oﬀ his
stellar Yale Bulldogs Cross Country
career in the fall of 2015 with a series
of races that will cement his legacy as
one of the greatest cross country athletes ever to don the Y. Dooney ﬁnished
second at the Heptagonal Championships and was then named All-Region
for his 8th place ﬁnish at the Northeast
Regional. This ﬁnish qualiﬁed him,
for the third time in as many years, to
the NCAA Cross Country Championships in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the
only three-time individual cross country national qualiﬁer in Yale history.

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JAMES RANDON
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SHANNON
MCDONNELL
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MARC-ANDRE
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Freshman Austin Laut, a native of El
Dorado Hills, California, earned a trip
to the United States 2016 Junior Outdoor Championships after an incredible ﬁrst year at Yale. Laut broke both
the indoor and outdoor Yale freshman
records in the pole vault and scored
at indoor Heps, indoor and outdoor
IC4A and qualiﬁed for the NCAA
East Preliminary Round. His PR of
5.11m qualiﬁed him to the USA Junior Nationals, where a clearance of
5.10m earned him 7th place overall.

Yale. Harvard. Oxford. Cambridge. The four ďŹ nest academic institutions in the world. The roots of the Transatlantic Series date back to 1894, when Oxford and Yale met at the Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club in London.. The next year, Cambridge met Yale
at Manhattan Field in New York City. The HYOC meet as it is also known today took the four team form in 1899. The
Transatlantic Series takes place every two years and alternates between bing hosted in the United Kingdom and the
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The NCAA East Preliminary Round is the gateway to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The top 48 individuals are accepted into the Preliminary Round with the top 12 advancing to Eugene.
In 2015, Yale qualiﬁed 7 athletes to the East Preliminary in Jacksonville, Florida. Just one year later, there were 10
Bulldogs across the sprints, hurdles, pole vault, middle distance, distance and steeplechase event groups. There
were also multiple athletes who qualiﬁed to their respective event’s quarterﬁnals and one who qualiﬁed to Eugene.

Senior James Randon will take the position previously occupied by Kevin
Dooney. Randon, an All-Ivy and AllRegion honoree during the 2015 cross
country campaign also garnered AllAmerican Honors in the 1500m at the
2016 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
During the 2016 indoor season, Randon became the ﬁrst Yale Bulldog in
history to break the 4:00 mile barrior by running 3:58.85 en route to
the IC4A Championship and IC4A
Record. Heading into his senior season, Randon has already broken the
indoor mile and outdoor 1500m Yale
records.

Senior Frances Schmiede becomes the
captain of the 2017 Yale women’s cross
country team, taking over for Yale alumna
Shannon McDonnell. Schmiede embarks
on her senior campaign after an incredibly successful 2015-2016 cross country
and track and ﬁeld season. During cross
country, Schmiede earned All-Ivy and
All-Region honors during cross country
and broke the indoor mile and outdoor
1500m Yale records. During the 2016 indoor season, Schmiede posted a 4:37.77 at
the Valentine Invitational that earned her
a berth in the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Alabama. Her
performance earned her second team AllAmerican honors .

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Senior Marc-Andre Alexandre, a native of Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
was elected captain of the men’s
track and ﬁeld team, previously held
by Brendan Sullivan. Alexandre, a
two-time Ivy League Champion in
the outdoor 400m dash and three
time All-Ivy Honoree, also qualiﬁed
to the NCAA East Preliminary Round
in 2016. In addition to his success in
the Ivy League, Alexandre also led oﬀ
Yale’s school record holding indoor
4x400m relay team. On the international stage, Alexandre qualiﬁed to
the Canadian Outdoor Championships / Olympic Selection Trials in
July of 2016 and ﬁnished 6th in the
senior 400m championship.

Senior Kate Simon, a Woodbridge, Connecticut native,
was elected captain for the
2016-2017 school year, taking over for sprinter Sydney
Cureton. Simon was a key
contributor for the Bulldogs
during the Ivy League scored
meets, winning the shot put
at the YDC meet and scoring
in the weight throw at YDC
and HYP. Simon won the
weight throw at the Giegengack Invitational and scored
in the shot put, hammer
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David Shoehalter oﬃcially took over the Bulldogs’ program as the Mark T. Young
’68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field in 2010-11. Shoehalter, who had
helped build the program in his 16 seasons as a coach at Yale before that, succeeded
legendary Yale coach Mark Young ’68 in the director’s position.
During his tenure at Yale Shoehalter has focused on the sprinters, hurdlers and
jumpers on both the men’s and women’s teams. He has coached multiple Bulldog
student-athletes to All-Ivy, All-East and All-American honors, including Yale’s ﬁrst
IC4A champion in the hurdles since the 1970s and All-American Jihad Beauchman
’06 in the high jump. Under Shoehalter’s guidance, many Bulldogs have broken
records in the sprints, jumps and hurdles. He also coached Joslyn Woodard ’06 to
eight consecutive titles and a total of 20 career titles at the Ivy League’s Heptagonal
Championships.
The Yale program has made dramatic strides in many areas during Shoehalter’s
time, including the renovation of Coxe Cage in 2005 that included the dedication
of the William Clay Ford ‘48 Track & Field Center and a new banked indoor track
named after Frank Shorter ’69, the former Yale cross country captain, NCAA champion, and two-time Olympic medalist.
In addition to his contributions as a coach at Yale, Shoehalter has also reached out
to the larger track and ﬁeld community. He is a member of the USTFCCCA Executive Committee. He has been the secretary of the Heptagonal Games Coaches Association for 12 years and is currently the second vice president of the IC4A Track and
Field Coaches Association.
A 1989 graduate of Penn with a degree in history, Shoehalter captained the Quakers as a senior and was a scorer in the hurdles and the pentathlon at the Heptagonal Championships. He then spent a season as a volunteer coach at his alma mater,
working with Penn’s high jumpers in 1989-90. Prior to coming to Yale Shoehalter
was an assistant coach at Lafayette College from 1990 to 1994. He coached the
sprinters, jumpers and hurdlers.

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Paul Harkins, who spent four seasons as an assistant coach at New Mexico State, was named men’s cross country, middle distance and
distance coach at Yale in the fall of 2011. Harkins helped the New Mexico State women’s cross country team to the ﬁrst WAC championship in school history in 2009, just two years after he took over a team that had ﬁnished seventh in 2006. He was also a part of the
men’s cross country team’s highest ﬁnish in school history -- second place in 2010. Prior to his time at New Mexico State, he coached at
Brown, making Yale his second Ivy League stop.
Harkins was named the WAC Conference Women’s Coach of the Year in 2009 at New Mexico State after leading the Aggies to the
league title. That same season, he coached the WAC Women’s Cross Country Freshman of the Year. All told, Harkins coached ﬁve individual WAC champions and 53 all-conference orees, including the Aggies’ ﬁrst male cross country runner to earn back-to-back all-conference honors since 1971-72. His runners set nine school records and made 60 additions to the school’s top 10 list.
Prior to joining the New Mexico State staﬀ, Harkins spent a season as an assistant
at Brown and two seasons as an assistant at Missouri State. He coached at Nathan
Hale High School in Seattle, Wash., from 2001 to 2004.
In his short time at Yale, Harkins has coached many middle-distance and distance
athletes to great success, and students like Kevin Dooney, Tim Hillas, Ryan Laemel,
John McGowan, Matt Nussbaum, James Randon, James Shirvell and Matt Thwaites
all emerged as regional stars under his coaching.
Harkins coached his ﬁrst Bulldog to the Division I NCAA Cross Country National
Championships in 2013, helping sophmore Kevin Dooney earn All-Region and
second-team All-Ivy honors and become just the sixth Yale runner to compete at
Nationals since 1991. In 2016, Harkins helped junior James Randon become the ﬁrst
Yale student-athlete in history to break the 4:00 mile barrier and become only the
third men’s Ivy League 1500m runner to score at the National Championships.
Harkins received a B.A. in economics from the University of Washington, where
he ran cross country and track, in 2000. He also has a Master’s of Science in health
promotion and wellness management from Missouri State.

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Amy Gosztyla joined the Yale staﬀ as women’s cross country, middle distance and distance coach in the summer of 2011. During the
2012 cross country season, Gosztyla coached Yale to its ﬁrst national ranking since 2005. During her tenure as cross country coach, Gosztyla has coached seven athletes to NCAA All-Region honors and eight to All-Ivy League honors. During the 2014 cross country season, Gosztyla coached Kira Garry ’15 to qualify for the NCAA DI National Championships— the ﬁrst Yale athlete to do so since 2007.
During her time with Yale track and ﬁeld, Gosztyla has coached distance and middle distance athletes to 15 qualifying performances
for the NCAA 1st Round and 20 All-East Individual Performances.
Gosztyla spent three years as an assistant at Harvard prior to coming to Yale. There, she worked primarily with the men’s and women’s middle distance and distance runners. During her time with the Crimson Gosztyla coached six NCAA Championship qualiﬁers, 13
NCAA Regional/First Round qualiﬁers, 97 ECAC/IC4A qualiﬁers and ﬁve Ivy League Heptagonal champions.
Prior to joining the Harvard staﬀ, Gosztyla was the assistant women’s cross country and track and ﬁeld coach at her alma mater, New
Hampshire. In her one season as an assistant with the Wildcats, 2007-08, she helped develop the program’s ﬁrst women’s cross country
All-American in nearly 15 years.
From 2005 to 2007 Gosztyla was the assistant men’s and women’s cross country and track
and ﬁeld coach at Stony Brook. She and head coach Andy Ronan were named America East
Women’s Cross Country Coaching Staﬀ of the Year in 2005 and 2006, and the women’s cross
country team developed into an NCAA qualiﬁer in 2007. Individually, Gosztyla helped coach
four NCAA Regional qualiﬁers, 46 ECAC/IC4A qualiﬁers and three America East champions.
Gosztyla was named America East Student-Athlete of the Year in 2002, and was honored by
UNH that same year with the Jim Urqhart Award as the school’s female student-athlete of
the year. She was a six-time America East champion in indoor and outdoor track, and at one
point held seven school records.
Gosztyla graduated magna cum laude from New Hampshire in May 2001 with a bachelor’s
degree in nutritional sciences. She earned her master’s degree in exercise science summa cum
laude from the same school in May 2004, earning the school’s Basil Mott Leadership Award
along the way.

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George Evans, who was the head coach of men’s and women’s track and ﬁeld and cross country at Marietta (Ohio) College for three
seasons, joined the Yale track and ﬁeld coaching staﬀ as an assistant in the fall of 2014. Since then, student-athletes under Evans’ tutelage have broken numerous school records, won three Ivy League Heptagonal Championships and qualiﬁed to the NCAA Preliminary
Round.
At Marietta, Evans helped the Pioneers break 40 school records and earn six All-America selections (in six diﬀerent events). In his ﬁrst
season, he coached four student-athletes to the NCAA Division III National Championships. He coached three more student-athletes to
the NCAAs in his second season, and one more in his third.
Evans led the Marietta men’s indoor track and ﬁeld team to its best ﬁnish in the Ohio
Athletic Conference in 2013 (third), and also oversaw Marietta’s ﬁrst Ohio Athletic
Conference individual cross country champion (2011, 2012).
Prior to Marietta, Evans spent ﬁve years as an assistant coach at Brown specializing in sprints/hurdles and relays. During his time with the Bears he helped Brown’s
student-athletes to 30 ECAC/IC4A qualifying marks, 10 individual Ivy League titles
and seven school records. He also coached nine NCAA Regional qualiﬁers.
A native of Boardman, Ohio, Evans began his coaching career as an assistant coach
specializing in sprints/hurdles and relays at Youngstown State in 2004-05. That year,
he helped coach Youngstown’s student-athletes to seven individual Horizon League
titles and ﬁve league records.
Evans received his B.A. in history from Lehigh in 2004, where he was a two-time
Patriot League champion (in the 60-meter and 200-meter dashes) and was named
Lehigh’s Athlete of the Year as a senior. He still holds the Lehigh record for the
60-meter dash (6.83), the 100-meter dash (10.51) and the 200-meter dash (21.32), and is
part of the record-holding 4x100-meter relay team (41.21). Evans also played football
(wide receiver) for the Mountain Hawks, and was a member of the 2001 team that
ﬁnished 11-0 and won the Lambert Cup as the best team in Division I-AA on the East
Coast.

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Wilfredo de Jesus Elias, who had been an assistant coach at United States Merchant Marine Academy since 2011, joined the
Yale track and ﬁeld coaching staﬀ as an assistant in the summer of 2015. de Jesus works primarily with Yale’s throwers.
At the USMMA, de Jesus oversaw the throws group and also served as interim head coach (May 2013 to September 2013). In
his ﬁrst season, he helped coach the ﬁrst women’s individual Landmark Champion in the history of the Academy. In addition
to working with the track and ﬁeld team, de Jesus also was an assistant for the cross country team for each of the past four
seasons as well. He also served as strength and conditioning coach for three other varsity teams starting in 2013, and was an
academic advisor for 10 student-athletes.
de Jesus is a 2011 graduate of the University at Albany, where he majored in human biology and excelled for the track and
ﬁeld team. He won IC4A championships in the weight throw (indoors, 2011) and the hammer throw (outdoors, 2011). He was
also the America East indoor champion in the weight throw (2009, 2010 and 2011) and the America East outdoor champion in
the hammer throw (2009, 2011). In 2011 he was honored as the America East indoor performer of the year the Albany indoor
track and ﬁeld MVP. He holds school records in the hammer throw and weight
throw, and competed in the NCAA East Preliminary Round multiple times. de
Jesus was a part of four America East outdoor team championship victories and
four America East indoor team championship victories in his time with the Great
Danes.
de Jesus attended Natividad Rodriguez Gonzalez High School in his native Puerto
Rico and was recognized as Puerto Rico’s National Athlete of the Year in 2007,
when he became the ﬁrst Puerto Rican hammer thrower to medal (bronze) at
the Pan-Am Junior Championships. He is a national record holder and currently
the country’s top-ranked thrower. Twice he represented his country at the Central American and Caribbean Games, ﬁnishing as high as seventh place (hammer
throw).

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Matt McMasters, who was an assistant at Xavier from 2013 to 2015, joined the Yale cross country and track and ﬁeld coaching staﬀ as
an assistant coach in the summer of 2015. McMasters coaches middle distance and distance athletes, working with them alongside cross
country coaches Amy Gosztyla and Paul Harkins. He also serves as the program’s director of operations.
In his ﬁrst year at Yale, McMasters helped the women’s and men’s cross country teams ﬁnish 2nd and 3rd, respectively at the Ivy
League Heptagonal Championships at Van Cortlandt Park with four All-Ivy Honorees. Two weeks later, ﬁve Bulldogs earned All-Region
Honors and Kevin Dooney qualiﬁed to the NCAA Cross Country Championships. On the track McMasters help the Yale middle distance
and distance athletes to six All-Ivy Honorees, two Ivy League Champions, six NCAA East Preliminary qualiﬁers, four Yale school records, an indoor second team All-American, an outdoor ﬁrst team All-American and the ﬁrst Yale Bulldog to break the 4:00 mile barrier.
McMasters’ two seasons at Xavier included one as a graduate assistant. In 2013, he helped the women’s cross country team achieve the
best regional ﬁnish in school history (and the best year-to-year regional ﬁnish improvement in Division I). He also helped Clare Fischer
become the school’s ﬁrst NCAA Championship qualiﬁer. All told in his two years, he worked with one USTFCCCA All-Academic individual honoree, two NCAA First Round qualiﬁers, one Big East champion, 11 All-Big East honorees, 20 Xavier record holders and 32
Xavier all-time cross country entries. All of the teams he worked with were named USTFCCCA All-Academic.
In addition to his coaching experience, McMasters
brings an extensive academic background to New
Haven. A native of Cincinnati, he graduated from
the University of Cincinnati in 2011 with bachelors
and masters degrees in biomedical engineering with
specializations in biomechanics. He began work on a
Ph.D. in biomedical engineering/biomechanics at Cincinnati, then enrolled in Xavier’s sport administration
program and earned his master’s degree in education
in that ﬁeld in 2014.

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Brian Tompkins is Yale Athletics’ Senior Associate Athletic Director for Student Services, a position he has occupied since the
summer of 2015. In addition, Tompkins is also the sport administrator for the track and ﬁeld and cross country program and
works with the entire staﬀ on many of the programtic facets of the program.
Prior to taking the role of Senior Associate Athletic Director, Tompkins was the head coach of the Yale men’s soccer team. Arriving from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1996, Tompkins spent 18 years at the helm of the Bulldogs’ men’s soccer program.
Tompkins’ 1999 team enjoyed one of the most memorable seasons in school
history. The Bulldogs won a school-record 13 games, upset Rutgers in the
ﬁrst round of the NCAA Tournament and had a ﬁnal national ranking of
18th. In 2005, Tompkins guided Yale to its ﬁrst Ivy League title since 1991.
The Bulldogs ﬁnished with a 10-4-4 overall record, were 5-1-1 in Ivy play
and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the sixth time in school history.
Eight of Tompkins’ players at Yale went on to play professionally, including
Ryan Raybould ‘05, who spent three seasons with the Kansas City Wizards
of Major League Soccer and Brian Roberts ‘04 who also spent three years
playing for the Wizards and became the ﬁrst Yale player to start an MLS
game when he played 79 minutes against Real Salt Lake in July of 2005.
Since 2008, Tompkins also has served as a coach with the Olympic Development Program. Presently, he is the head coach of the Region 1 Under-15
ODP age group. In December of 2013, he guided the team to the U15 ODP
Interregional Tournament title.

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Coxe Cage is the home of Yale’s men’s and women’s indoor track teams. The Cage was named for Charles Edmund Coxe (1893),
a hammer thrower on Yale’s squad. Legend has it that Coxe, who was charged with raising funds for the new facility, could
not be bothered with such eﬀorts and instead oﬀered the necessary $300,000 to build the facility on the stipulation that it be
named for him. Yale accepted the oﬀer and began construction on what was then considered to be one of the largest structures of its kind in the world. To this day its 26,000 square foot skylight is among the largest anywhere. In 1982, Coxe Cage
also underwent major renovations. The old cinder track and dirt ﬂoor were removed in favor of a state of the art, “tuned”,
En-tout-cas oval and inﬁeld. The track was mounted on a structure designed to allow the runner to train more consistently
without suﬀering the strain and injury incurred on other surfaces. At the time of its installation it was thought to be the most
advanced track of its kind. In 1988, another track was installed. In 2005, Coxe Cage underwent major renovations, installing
a banked Mondo track as well as a Mondo inﬁeld. The renovations were able to take place due to the generosity of Donald M.
Roberts ‘57, who named the track the Frank Shorter ‘69 Track, to honor the former Yale cross country captain and two-time
Olympic medalist. The track is one of the premier venues in the United States, and provides Yale athletes with an unparalleled training and competition facility. In 2013, the Mondo track was replaced with state-of-the-art Beynon surface and inﬁeld.

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The home of Yale track and ďŹ eld since its inception as a sport in the 1870s, Dewitt Cuyler Athletic Complex and the Dwyer Track are among the premier track and ďŹ eld facilities in the nation. The eight lane En-toutcas surface was laid in 1981, replacing a legendary cinder oval, the likes of which had rarely been scene. The old
track had two 200-meter straightaways, enabling runners to race a one-turn 400-meter dash and a straight 200-meter dash. The new layout was resurfaced in the summer of 1995 in preparation for the Special Olympics World Games.
The creative layout of the facility allows for competition in all events including the hammer, discus and javelin within the complex.
Sprint straightaways are marked to allow for competition in both directions depending on the prevailing winds, and multi-directional runways in the long and triple jumps and the pole vault allow for optimal performance. A huge high jump apron makes for a
great jumping area. Three shot-put circles, two hammer/discus cages and an all-weather javelin runway make the facility a
throwerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream. Bleachers on the sprint straightaway seat 1,500, making the complex a tremendous host site for
championship meets. Dewitt Cuyler and Yale have served as hosts for three IC4A championships (most recently in the spring of 2004) and six Heptagonal Championships (most recently in 2011). In the summer of 1995, 5,000
Special Olympics Athletes from around the world competed in the Special Olympics World Games at the facility.

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Payne Whitney Gymnasium, which is in the process of an exterior restoration, was constructed in 1932 under the direction of John
Russel Pope. The gym is one of the most complete units of indoor facilities in the world. The building was given to the University by
the Whitney family in memory of their son Payne Whitney, class of 1898. The nine and one half story structure contains training
centers for crew, gymnastics, swimming, general exercise, recreational and varsity strength and conditioning and a state of the art
fencing salon. The Dwyer Sports Medicine Center, located on the ﬁrst ﬂoor, is the primary rehabilitation facility for Yale Athletics.
The recently renovated center includes seven treatment tables, physician’s examination room, hydrotherapy room, dental mouthguard lab, isokinetic bicycles, a Kin Com Isokinetic testing and training device, an upper body ergometer, stairmaster and treadmill.
The highlight of the second ﬂoor is the Kiphuth Trophy Room, which features Yale memorabilia dating back to 1842. The
Lanman Center adds 57,000 square feet of new space that provides four regulation basketball and volleyball courts, 20 basketball stations and six badminton courts, along with a one-eighth-mile indoor running track. Other additions in Phase I
include 15 international squash courts and three exhibition courts, one of which is the only four-glass-wall court in the country.
Also new is the magniﬁcent 7,000-square foot Brooks-Dwyer Varsity Strength and Conditioning Room.

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In 1924, a 700-acre tract of swamp and woodland was given to Yale by Mrs. Ray Tompkins in memory of her husband. Under
the
supervision
of
Charles
Blair
Macdonald,
the
renowned
golf
course
architect,
champion golfer, and co-founder of the USGA, plans were made for an 18-hole golf course. With a budget of $400,000, Macdonald, in collaboration with Seth Raynor and Charles Banks, designed a masterpiece.
The Course at Yale serves as the home for Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf teams and is also the competition course and practice venue for Yaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cross
country teams. The course provides a welcome respite from the hustle and bustle of downtown New Haven and gives Yale distance
and middle distance runners an incredibly scenic, bucolic and challenging place to train and compete. In addition to being able to
run on the course itself, Yale athletes are aďŹ&#x20AC;orded the opportunity to train on the numerous dirt trails that surround the golf course.

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Just west of Coxe Cage and north of the Armory sit the Yale Intramural Fields. These ﬁelds are used by a variety of Yale associated teams
and groups , notably the Yale men’s and women’s cross country and track and ﬁeld teams. The intramural ﬁelds oﬀer a large, ﬂat and
open area for student-athletes to utilize. The soft surface provided by the expansive ﬁelds measures nearly a mile around the perimeter. The Intramural Fields are used throught the entire season but especially in the fall by the men’s and women’s cross country teams.

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Thanks to the donation from Joel E. Smilow ‘54, the Bulldogs have a renovated multi-purpose facility on Derby Avenue across
the street from the football practice ﬁelds and next to Coxe Cage. The facility was completed in time for the fall 1993 athletic
season and includes a 10,000 net square foot addition with new mechanical and electrical equipment. The Smilow Center has
spacious locker rooms for each of the men’s and women’s varsity teams and several visitors’ locker rooms with an adjoining
athletic training room. The ﬁrst ﬂoor showcases a beautiful lounge area with kitchen, varsity locker rooms, an improved athletic
equipment distribution and storage area, laundry facilities, and a varsity athletic training center with an eight-person whirlpool, X-ray room, physician examining room, eight taping stations, medical supply storage area and medical staﬀ oﬃce space.

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Ray Tompkins House, stands adjacent to the Payne Whitney Gymnasium on Tower Parkway, and while not physically a part of the gymnasium, is connected underground with it, and in general appearance is a part of it, having been designed by John Russell Pope of New York City, who was also the architect of the gymnasium. Ray
Tompkins House contains three ﬂoors (~44,380 sq. feet), and provides oﬃces for the Athletic Department’s
Director and Associates, Varsity Sports Operations , Sport and Recreation, Alumni Aﬀairs, Ticket Oﬃce, Financial Aﬀairs,
Facilities Management, Sports Publicity, Department Administrative Assistants, Equipment Manager, and Coaching Staﬀ.

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Yale University is located in the city of New Haven, Connecticut. New Haven is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound. New haven is the second largest city in Connecticut and just
over 125,000 people call the Elm City Home. New Haven was the ﬁrst planned city in the United States and also
claims the world’s ﬁrst hamburger and frisbee. The climate in New Haven yields four seasons with warm summers, cool autumns and varying winters. New Haven has a central downtown and university area and is surrounded by the neighborhoods of West Haven, Orange, Woodbridge, Hamden, North Haven and East Haven.

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New Haven is known for many aspects of student life, including the world’s best pizza and great shopping
and entertainment options. There are numerous pizza restaurants in New Haven, each having its own characteristics and unique ﬂavors. The Shops at Yale, along Broadway and Chapel oﬀer residents dining and shopping options for everyone. For entertainment, New Haven is a hub for cinema, theater and music and oﬀers multiple event and concert halls that have headlining performances throughout the year. New Haven also oﬀers great
recreation options outside of Yale. The Farmington Canal Trail is a long, paved trail that extends to Massachusetts.